Africa - Southern
Madagascar ranks 164 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International works to tackle the root causes of poverty and gender inequality, as well as supporting disaster risk reduction activities.
CARE International first opened offices in Madagascar in 1992 with the aim of tackling the root causes of poverty, including social exclusion, lack of access to basic resources and services, poor governance, and gender inequality.
Today, CARE International’s work in Madagascar focuses on:
Over 2 million people in Southern Africa have been affected by Tropical Cyclone Freddy and Tropical Storm Cheneso. These extreme weather patterns brought death, destruction, and displacement of families and whole communities.
On February 22, 2022, Cyclone Emnati is expected to make landfall on the southeast coast of Madagascar following almost the same path as Cyclone Batsirai.
The tropical cyclone Batsirai made landfall on 5th February at 2000hrs local time on the East coast of Madagascar. The north of the city of Mananjary is reported to be the most damaged area at more than 70%.
RAN-AINA ran from 2014-2017 in Madagascar with $1.2 million from the European Union. It reached 18,000 people directly and 82,068 people indirectly.
Want to reduce poaching and deforestation, improve incomes, reduce the poverty rate, and get people more food? Just ask CARE Madagascar.
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With CARE’s fourth global Suffering In Silence report, we are starting to see a trend of certain countries annually remaining on the list of the most under-reported crises. While we expanded the analysis in 2019 by including Spanish and Arabic online media coverage (in addition to English, French and German), the results are surprisingly similar to previous years.
This is the third consecutive year that CARE publishes its report “Suffering In Silence”. It serves as a call for the global community to speak up for people in crises who are otherwise forgotten and to help them overcome hardship.
Southern Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 35 years. In a region in which more than 70% of the population depend on agriculture, this has caused the worst food security crisis since 1991/92.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
